(Sticky This) How did you get started?

[Killah_Trakz]

Hello my goverment name is Patrick ,but im better off being called Trakz. Im 21 yrs old and have been into recording since the age 10. Its funny how i got started, i happened to go into someone's home who was using a dj mixer through the mic input and recording through acid, I reccomended that he sticks the dj mixer in the line input but he couldnt care less.

So i did the exact same setup but i chose the line in and started on vegas pro 1.0. Years flew and i got introduced to Quartz audiomaster pro 4.5, then Nuendo 1.5 >>>>>. 3.2. I loved the ease of nuendo but hated the internal summing.

Now im a samp junkie, and im breaking my neck to learn it. I hope i grasp on very quickly and continue to do my work. I have finished my personal recording of my album (Xpect da UnXpected) hiphop genre.

I've been using the same gear for the past 4yrs now, (not including the other specs from my win98-me days on another pc).

My current gear is as follows:
p4 2.40ghz
512mb
1 20gb/Os
1 80gb/rec
MAudio Delta 44 (88.2 is where this card shines @)
Mackie Control
Samp 8 (Renting)
Mackie HR-824
KRK V4
Mackie 1202 vlz pro
Rode NTK.

[LemonTree]

first time I was in a studiop was 1986. Didn't like the results but was amazed by the process. A 4 track tascam was purchased and the rest is history. Current setup in my signature link

[mixaholic]

i started a couple years ago when i figured out that i had talent lol. killah what samplitude version do you have and how much did you pay for it?

[Killah_Trakz]

Im using 8.2,and i have a cool friend who's a big time engineer and got it for me @ like 100$ a month (he would of paid for it n full, but i rather not have him do that). Im using his personal full blown original and from then i'll transfer the license too my name when done paying for his. He has a full blown TDM system now so thats what the labels want him to use. He hates it LOL, but love the fact of using a lot of plugins. He has this magma case off only UAD and that waves APA 44. He wanted to give me his dream system for free but i wanted to pay him for it so thats what i've been doing. Soon its gonna be hell of license transferring going on pretty soon lol. Im currently shopping for a major upgrade since i'll be doing some mixing for a record company on the weeks to come. Peace!

[mixaholic]

yea i feel ya lol

[mixaholic]

did you go to any recording school to get a license or did you just learn how to do it on your own

[Killah_Trakz]

i recorded these dudes who had major (%^%$%) money and they brung me clientele. And its been a wrap since then. Im trying to go semi major on the studio side just have a few kinks to get out my system.

[mixaholic]

yea thats pretty cool

[Creamyapples1]

Years ago, in high school a friend of mine had a fostex 4 track recorder and we used the hell out of it. Around the time we were in college we got hooked up with a guy going through a sound engineering school who needed musicians to record for his projects, so we started doing that here and there and had a blast, so I picked up a board and an adat and pounded it out for the next few years, took a break from recording and playing in a band for a few years and just played with myself, literally, hypotheically, etc. First stab at PC based recording was a few years ago with cool edit pro. It was cool, just didn't have the time or money to devote to it. Around 6 months ago I finally had some cash to blow, the interest to do it, and a place to do it in so I gave it hell and been at it ever since.

[Halion]

Rep point for you, just because it's a good idea, and you didn't have any points yet

I'm 21 too, I got started near the end of high school. That would be about 5 years ago. I started with Hammerhead. That's a freeware 909 style software drum machine, on which I tried to create a rock beat. Then came Fruity Loops. Suddenly I had more than 8 sounds to choose from. Then came Cubase VST 5.0. First time using stuff like time stretching and EQ. Then I got a little bit more serious and got Cubase SX 1, a Terratec 2496 card and a new computer. That really helped. I started tracking random stuff, pretty much all moot since I didn't have a preamp. When I had SX down a bit, I bought a behri pre and an SM57 knock-off. I tracked mostly guitars and vocals with that. Now I'm using Nuendo 3.2 for video stuff, or Cubase 2.2 for everything else. I'm using a DMP3, a cheap LDC, cheapo but better than none monitors and a slew of software plugins/vsti/libraries.

[djclueveli]

killah is the m-audio delta what you use to capture your sound? do you connect a preamp to your sound card? if you what preamp do you plug you're mic into

[Killah_Trakz]

Naw no preamp, just the mic str8 through the mackie mixer. And yes the maudio is my capture and everything. Im gonna be shopping soon for some new stuff. But this setup im gonna leave @ my home cuz i like its sound. p.s. i dont even see my rep points.

[HangDawg]

Originally Posted by Killah_Trakz

Hello my goverment name is Patrick ,but im better off being called Trakz. Im 21 yrs old and have been into recording since the age 10. Its funny how i got started, i happened to go into someone's home who was using a dj mixer through the mic input and recording through acid, I reccomended that he sticks the dj mixer in the line input but he couldnt care less.

So i did the exact same setup but i chose the line in and started on vegas pro 1.0. Years flew and i got introduced to Quartz audiomaster pro 4.5, then Nuendo 1.5 >>>>>. 3.2. I loved the ease of nuendo but hated the internal summing.

Now im a samp junkie, and im breaking my neck to learn it. I hope i grasp on very quickly and continue to do my work. I have finished my personal recording of my album (Xpect da UnXpected) hiphop genre.

I've been using the same gear for the past 4yrs now, (not including the other specs from my win98-me days on another pc).

My current gear is as follows:
p4 2.40ghz
512mb
1 20gb/Os
1 80gb/rec
MAudio Delta 44 (88.2 is where this card shines @)
Mackie Control
Samp 8 (Renting)
Mackie HR-824
KRK V4
Mackie 1202 vlz pro
Rode NTK.

I doubt this topic will warrant a sticky. Far better threads have fell to the depths of BBS hell.

[metalhead28]

Originally Posted by Killah_Trakz

Naw no preamp, just the mic str8 through the mackie mixer

Well, I wouldn't say "no pre-amp". It's very easy to confuse people around here. There is a pre-amp in your mixer....perhaps redundant, but judging by the context of the question you were answering....probably confusing.

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by metalhead28

Well, I wouldn't say "no pre-amp". It's very easy to confuse people around here. There is a pre-amp in your mixer....perhaps redundant, but judging by the context of the question you were answering....probably confusing.

True, I think he meant no outboard preamp.

[djclueveli]

is a outboard preamp better than a preamp on a mixer?

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by djclueveli

is a outboard preamp better than a preamp on a mixer?

Depends on what mixer, and what outboard preamp.

Are we talking Behringer mixers or the like? Or SSL or Neve mixers?
Two ends of the spectrum.

Same for outboard pres which range from the trip to the sublime.......

[djclueveli]

i'm talking about a mackie mixer compared to a presonus preamp. and where do they plug their mic to capture the sound? like what type of amps and sound card or whatever they use?

[peopleperson]

I got started when I read the Beatles recording sessions book and got to the part on how Tommorrow Never Knows was recorded. I bought a splicing block, and pulled out the partially working reel to reel machine and four track I had, neither one of which had been out of my closet since they had been given to me. For me, it all started with making odd pieces of tape loop music.

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by djclueveli

i'm talking about a mackie mixer compared to a presonus preamp. and where do they plug their mic to capture the sound? like what type of amps and sound card or whatever they use?

I am not exactly sure what you are asking, but here goes. Let me know if I'm off the mark:

A mic-pre and a pre-amp are the same thing in this context.

A standard mixer will have at least 2 types of inputs per channel: line inputs and mic inputs. The line inputs take an line-level signal, such as a synth. The mic inputs are called pre-amps in that they amplify the mic signal to line level.

So, you can plug your mic in to a mic input (pre-amp) on the mixer or you can plug your mic into an output preamp. In the latter case, the outboard preamp would then be connected to the line in on the mixer (or some other line-level input).

Either way, the whole point is to get the mic signal up to line-level.
Some people don't use a mixer and go straight to a soundcard. If that soundcard does not have a mic pre, then they have to use an outboard pre-amp.

Others prefer the sound of an outboard preamp to the preamps found in their mixers (or, as the case may be, soundcard).

However, as I have never used a presonus preamp, I cannot comment on it's quality.

[djclueveli]

thanks for the help

[Killah_Trakz]

no, i dont not have any outdoor preamps. im using the one of the mackie.

[Mindcore]

15 or so years ago, I wanted to record some of the stuff my band was doing. We were pretty much kids, but I went and bought a Fostex X26 4 track.

I did some great things with that thing, then I gave it up for years, 6 years ago I went to an 8track reel to reel, about a year ago I went computer.

Not that interesting now that I read it.

[Halion]

Originally Posted by Killah_Trakz

no, i dont not have any outdoor preamps. im using the one of the mackie.

I don't think many people have outdoor preamps, however, outboard preamps are a whole different thing

sorry mate, couldn't resist

[Killah_Trakz]

outdoor lmao, man my lil brain is so fried right now.